Ep 180: My new simple Q to ask when cranky, insecure, or overwhelmed
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford
Hilary Rushford
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🗓️ 27 September 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Ciao from Rome! When we’re in a bad mood, we know so much we could do to make ourselves feel better.
Yet how often do we not do it in the moment when we’re rushing, flooded, frustrated?
Recently I’ve found a new self-coaching prompt I’m actually remembering to use.
I’ve asked it to myself in those little moments in the day:
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When you’re trying on clothes that don’t fit
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When the commute was exhausting
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When no matter how hard you work you’re still behind
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When they’re upset even though you swore you tried your best
I’m asking myself this simple Q when I’m cranky… because it feels light.
It doesn’t require as much mental work as past options, and comes with a lot less shame.
Try it out for yourself today, and let me know if you agree?
I’ve been using it in Rome (more on my surprising thoughts about this city, travel, enough, fomo and more in the PS!) and it’s making my days sweeter.
Links in this episode:
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Healing Burnout at HilaryRushford.com/burnout ← coming back this fall, don’t miss it when you get on the waitlist!
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Ep 60 The Wand (how we feel better)
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Ep 175 Overcoming Mom Shame
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| 0:00.0 | You're welcome. What was that? You're welcome with Hillary Rushford. Say it again. You're welcome. |
| 0:11.5 | In advance. |
| 0:15.5 | Well, no, no, my dear. I am coming to you today from Rome. I am in our little Airbnb right now |
| 0:23.6 | in the heart of Old Town Rome, which is incredibly charming. I think this is the oldest |
| 0:29.2 | home. Jeremy and I feel like we've ever stayed at for a rental. The steps up in the building |
| 0:37.1 | are clearly old. The door to enter the apartment is just this thick wood with one of those big |
| 0:44.8 | like lion metal knuckers and a really old key that you put into it. And it looks out over this tiny |
| 0:52.8 | little charming square. There is the smallest little Italian church right outside our window. |
| 0:59.6 | It looks like maybe 20 people could fit in there. Everything here just feels so tiny even though |
| 1:07.2 | we know of it for the Vatican, which is so expansive and the Colosseum, which is so expansive in |
| 1:13.6 | the Trevi fountain, which is such a large and opulent fountain. But it's actually a really |
| 1:19.6 | surprising being here. How tiny everything is. And I'll talk a little bit more about Rome in the |
| 1:25.6 | yes, something I'm lovingly a section of the episode because I have some thoughts to share. |
| 1:31.3 | If you are interested in travel, definitely stick around. But I've been thinking about a phrase |
| 1:39.2 | over the last couple of weeks, and specifically as we've been traveling in the last few days, |
| 1:44.0 | it's come back to me. A couple of weeks ago, I was listening to a meditation and I asked the |
| 1:50.0 | question in some form that we are often asked at the top of a meditation or a yoga practice, |
| 1:56.4 | which is to think about your intention, your intention for the practice, your intention, or this |
| 2:03.0 | session. And I feel like usually when you're asked in that context, the intention is often to be |
| 2:09.2 | present. That's what we're trying to do in yoga or meditation is be in the present moment, not |
| 2:14.1 | ruminating over the past or fearful or planning for the future or to feel peace, which often is also |
| 2:22.6 | what we feel when we just are in the present moment. But when she asked it, it hit me different this |
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